fionamw

I was struggling to explain myself jokily with the foreman at the local Nissan garage this morning - repeated but different problems with my car leave me seething and he knows it..... But Friday car? He didn't seem to really grasp the concept until I realised fabricado would have been better than hecho and even then it got a bit lost in translation
Anyway...... has anyone seen a really colloquial phrase book for all the stuff we use in English as conversational 'shorthand'? Rat run, put your thinking cap on, bright as a button, yadda yadda (I mean literally, yadda yadda!!) and suchlike?

whitelinen

I always thought the saying was............ made on a Monday.

fionamw

Could've sworn my friends/etc said Friday (workers wanting to get home, etc) ... but maybe it should be Monday AND Friday!

Dick Dasterdly

I reckon all new cars should be stamped with the day of the week of manufacture, then punters can insist on a special discount for the Monday and Friday models.

ShinyAndy

I assume you mean idioms really, a Spanish friend got me this book for Xmas and it covers a fair few of those impossible to literally translate phrases

agoreira

I doubt you'll get anything very similar to say "thinking cap", some of the material I use gives ponerse a pensar en and Use todo su ingenio . That's about the nearest you'll probably come, using "un gorro racional" or some such literal translation will mean nothing.

lynnxa

http://forum.wordreference.com/

has an interesting 'idioms' section